Brought her in naked beauty more adorn’d,
More lovely than Pandora, whom the Gods
Endow’d with all their gifts, and O too like
In sad event, when to th’ unwiser son
Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnar’d
Mankind by her fair looks, to be aveng’d
On him who had stole Jove’s authentic fire.’
The other is a passage of extreme beauty and pathos blended. It is the one in which the Angel is described as the guest of our first ancestors:
——‘Meanwhile at table Eve
Minister’d naked, and their flowing cups